Alibaba plans revenue sharing for next open-source Qwen AI model

Alibaba plans to require large commercial users of its next open-source AI model, Qwen3.8-Max, to share a portion of the revenue generated, following a similar move by Moonshot AI. This revenue-sharing model aims to capture value from commercial deployments outside Alibaba Cloud.

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